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Re: Time to drop plpython2?

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2021-10-31T19:05:42Z
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Hi,

On 2021-10-31 14:49:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > To me it seems time to drop plpython2 support. Supporting plpython2
> > until ~7 years after python2 is EOL is already quite long... It'd be one
> > thing if it were completely painless, but imo it's not.
> 
> 7 years?  Oh, you're envisioning dropping plpython2 in HEAD but keeping
> it alive in the back branches.

Yea. It's annoying to support python2, but I don't think it's severe
enough to consider dropping support in released branches. We might get
to that point for the newer released versions, but for now...


> Yeah, it's a bit hard to justify continuing support in HEAD.

Cool.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. plpython: add missing plpython.h include to plpy_plpymodule.h

  2. plpython: Adjust docs after removal of Python 2 support.

  3. plpython: Code cleanup related to removal of Python 2 support.

  4. plpython: Remove regression test infrastructure for Python 2.

  5. plpython: Remove plpythonu, plpython2u and associated transform extensions.

  6. plpython: Reject Python 2 during build configuration.

  7. Add traceback information to PL/Python errors